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PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

O. S. GAUCH.

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APPLIOATION FILED JUNI: 2. 1905.

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ORLANDO S. GAUCH, OF SHELBY, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE SHELBY PRINTINGCOMPANY, OF SHELBY, OHIO, A CORPORATION.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 7, 1907.

Tan# w/wm it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ORLANDO S. GAUGE, a

.citizen of the United States of America, and

a resident of Shelby, Richland county, Ohio, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Presses, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to an improved method of manufacturing sales booksin which a tissue sheet in conjunction with ordinary paper is usedtogether with a carbon sheet for the purpose of making one or morecopies from an original impression.

Itis especially adapted to be used in the manufacture of triplicatingsales books requiring an original to be printed, numbered andperforated; a duplicate to be printed or numbered (or both) to remain inthe book, consisting of a tissue sheet, and a triplicate, numbered,printed and perforated.

It is well known to those skilled in this art that the operation ofprinting and numbering tissue paper is a very slow, laborious andexpensive process. It has been found impractical to print paper of thisdescription on a rotary pl'inting press, because tissue is so light inweight that it is not much heavier than the air through which it mustpass, and

the resistance of the air retards its movement and forces it out of itsusual course of travel, crumples it up and delivers it in a veryirregular and unreliable manner; therefore means must be employed tocounteract the resistance of the air.

The objects of my improvements are, first to afford facilities forrinting, numbering and perforating the dup icate (or tissue) leaf at thesame time with the original or triplicate leaf of a sales or order bookthereby increasing the production of the press and at the same time todivert the travel of the tissue (or duplicate) web in such a manner asto permit lts delivery with the original or triplicate leaf withoutperforation. Second, to provide a means of feeding, transmittin anddirecting the tissue web in its trave through the press continuously andat the same speed as is obtained in the travel of the ordinary papersthrough the press; third, to provide lmeans of overcoming andVcounteracting the resistance of the air to permit the delivery of thetissue sheet uniformly and at the same speed as the paper sheet. Iattain these and other objects by the mechanism illustrated in theaccompanying drawings in which.-

Figure 1, is a side view of the cylinders and rollers of a rotary pressshowing the travel of the paper, the application of my device, and themethod used to divert and deliver the tissue sheet. Fig. 2, is a topplan View of an original, tissue (or duplicate), and triplicate leaf inthe shape they are'after passing through the press preparatory tobinding.

In the drawings (a) represents a roll of paper mounted on a suitablecylinder used on presses of the rotary type. The aper Web for theoriginal or triplicate leaf 1s fed into the press from the roller (a)first passing over the idler (b). It then takes a downward coursepassing under the tension roller (c), thence upward over the idlers (d)and (e), thence under the idler (f) to the periphery of the impressioncylinder (g) where the subject matter is printed by the printingcylinder (h) in the usual manner, and at the same time each leaf isnumbered if desired by the numbering cylinder (t). The paper web is thencarried over the impression cylinder (j) and brought in contact with theprinting cylinders (lc) and (Z) which prints the opposite side of thepaper; thence to the numbering cylinder (m). From the numbering cylinder(m) the paper web passes between the cylinders (n n) which perform thefunction of perforating the leaves as desired. The paper web is thencarried between the cutting cylinders (o) and (01) passing around andunder the cylinder (0) to the fly from which it is delivered to thepacker. (Not shown on the drawing).

The travel of the aper web from which the original and triplicate sheetsare made is s ecilic-ally shown by the dotted line (1) and t ie arrows.The travel of the paper web as it first leaves the cylinder is indicatedbv the arrow (2). u

I have described the travel of the paper web from the feed roll orcylinder of a rotary press which erforms the functions described inorder to s ow the application of my inven- IOC tion to the press and themeans employed to feed the tissue web into and through the press, omitthe perforation and deliver it with the same elliciency and high speedas the usual paper sheet is delivered.

Reference letter and figure (al) indicate an auxiliary roller upon whichthe tissue paper IOS is'rolled preparatory to feeding it into the press.This roller maybe secured tothe rame of the press above the roller (a)or any other suitable place. The tissue web is drawn from this rollerover the periphery of web over the impression cylinder' (g) passingunder the printing and numbering cylinders (h) and (i) respectively7 forthe purpose of numbering and printing if desired. An idler (4) issecured to theframe of the press below the center of the cylinder (g).

the paper web, diverted/and carried under the idler (4); thence over theidler' (6); thence at an angle downward passing between the idler (7)and idler (8) which brings the tissue web in close contact with thepaper web, displacing and excluding the air by the tension as describedabove. are fitted to the frame substantiallyon a plane with each otherare provided with a means of adjustment for the purpose ofincreasing ordecreasing the length of the tissue sheet between the idlers (4) and(6). The paper and tissue webs travel together again'from the idler.(7)r passing between the cutting cylinders (o) and (o1), which cuts lthewebs simultaneously into sheets. The sheets,

. after being cut, are stripped from the upper cutting cylinder by meansof stripper iingers which direct and guide the sheets to a series oftapes which carry the sheets partly around and in contact with the lowercutting cylinder. Of said series of. tapes, two on-the outer sides knownas delivery tapes, eXtend to the rear of the packer, the sheets beingretained in close contact with these two delivery tapes by two other taes running above them and pressing the s eet against them. These twolatter tapes run from the stripper fingers on the lower cutting cylinderto the rear of the packer. The sheets are stripped from the lowercylinder by stripper fingers and carried forward by these four tapes.

When running one sheet there is a tendency to sag between these tapes.will be noted that the paper and tissue sheets by the means employed aredelivered into the packer together, the weight and protection of thepaper permitting the delivery of both sheets at the same rate of speed'obf.

tained when using the paper alone.

The current of air caused by the raising (and lowering of the fly in theordinary working of the press, invariably diverts the sheets upward ordownward, making it The tissue web` as shown by the full line (5) isseparated from The idlers (4) and (6) which' Alow rate of speed, Itherefore, prefer to employ a fan which I will now describe.-

Reference letter (D) ldesignates, the admission inlets of aircommunicating with a fan. The air generated by the fan is directedslantingly against the tissue sheet, preserving its Contact with thepaper, which it will be observed is the upper sheet at this point of itstravel. The pressure of this current of air holds the tissue sheetagainst the paper sheet, preventing it from sagging and admitting airbetween the sheets, thereby supporting and assisting the forward travelof the sheets until they are deposited in the packer by the fly Thearrow (E) and those following and pointed inthe same direction indicate'the course of travel of the tissue sheet. l

I do not confine myself to the exact means of diverting the'ti'ssue -webby means of bars or lrollers as described, asmany changes or alterationscanbe made in placing the roller' or bars and diverting the travel ofthe web without deviating from the rinciple ine volved in my inventionas herein described.

What I, claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is.- v

1. In a printing press having means to rint, number and erforate aseries of leaves for sales books,a rum h'aving a tissue web mountedthereon, idlers arranged to` carry and transmit said tissue web in closecontact with the ordinary paper web, means to divert the travel of thetissue web to omit p'erforating, means for again bringing the tissue webin close contact withl the paper web, a fly, means for'directing acurrent of air slantingly against the tissue sheet keeping it in contactwith the paper'sheet and to counteract the suction or Avacuum caused bythe upward stroke ofthe fly 2. In a printing press adapted to repare aseries of leaves for use in the manu acture of sales or order books, adrum carrying a tissue web, a drum carrying a pa er web idlers soarranged as to transmit sai tissue web partially throughv the press withthe paper web and displacing the air between them, perfo` rating rolls,means for diverting the travel of the webs to permit the perforation ofthe pa-. per web and avoid perforating the tissue web, means to bringthe webs together before delivery, meansy to direct the im act of aircurrents against the tissue sheet, orcing it' in close contact with thepaper sheet. y

3. In a printing press of the rotary type having means topririt, numberand perforate leaves for salesor order books, drums having tissue andpaper webs mounted thereon,

paths in such a manner as to omit perforatmg the tissue sheet, and tobrin said sheets together before delivery, means or directing an aircurrent against the tissue sheet to impine it against the paper sheetsubstantially as eseribed and set forth.v

4. In a printing press of the rotary type having means to print, numberand perforate leaves for sales or order books, drums having tissue andpaper Webs mounted thereon, means to feed said tissue and paper throughthe press to prepare said paper for use, idlers arranged to carry andtransmit said paper and tissue Webs together and in divergent paths insuch a manner as to omitA erforatlng the tissue sheet, means to deliversaid sheets.

5.; In a press for pre arin sales books printing, numbering anperforating rolls, means or feeding Webs of paper together to saidprinting and numbering rolls, means for diverting one web to theperforating rolls,

and means for. diverting the other ofsaid Webs away from `theperforating rolls to avoid perforation thereo and means forsubsequentlybringing said webs together for deli'very.

6. In a rotary printing press adapted for use in preparing leaves foruse in sales books, printin numbering, and perforating mechanism shaving rolls of aper mounted thereon, means for feeding saiwebs togetherto the press, means for diverting one of the said webs from the other inorder to avoid perforation of said Webs and means to brin the Webstogether for delivery as describe and set forth.

Signed at Shelby, Ohio, 4this 27th day of'- J EANNETTE HEATH.

